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	<title>Levitt Letter Extra News &#187; Informational</title>
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		<title>The Pros and Cons of Reverse Mortgages</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/10/30/the-pros-and-cons-of-reverse-mortgages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-11 Levitt Letter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cybele Weisser, www.TIME.com
While the recession hasn&#8217;t spared any age group, it&#8217;s been particularly brutal for older Americans who were counting on their (now shrunken) nest eggs to last through their retirement years. To supplement their stash, an increasing number of seniors are turning to reverse mortgages, which function essentially as a cash advance on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USS New York built with WTC steel sails for namesake city</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/10/14/uss-new-york-built-with-wtc-steel-sails-for-namesake-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/10/14/uss-new-york-built-with-wtc-steel-sails-for-namesake-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Sayre, www.Globe.com
AVONDALE, La.—A Navy assault ship built with tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers began its journey to New York on Tuesday, Oct 13, sailing down the Mississippi River in a pea-soup fog as watchers along the levee strained for a glimpse.
The USS New York, named to commemorate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18-YEAR-OLD ISRAELI GIRL IS A PHYSICS WHIZ</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/29/18-year-old-israeli-girl-is-a-physics-whiz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/29/18-year-old-israeli-girl-is-a-physics-whiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By  Orli Gold-Haklay   www.JPost.com
Hadas Tzaban, an 18-year-old high school student from the development town of Netivot, recently won first place in the international &#8220;First Step to Nobel Prize&#8221; research project competition held in Warsaw, Poland. To compete, high school students submit projects &#8211; in Hadas&#8217;s case her final matriculation project &#8211; which are then judged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why autumn in Israel is yellow</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/27/why-autumn-in-israel-is-yellow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/27/why-autumn-in-israel-is-yellow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[www.Israel21c.org
In the U.S., the brilliant autumn foliage with its variations on red, orange, brown, and yellow never fails to delight the eye. In Israel and Europe, however, it&#8217;s mostly a one-color spread of yellow.
Researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel and the University of Kuopio in Finland have a new theory that stretches back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris pool bans Muslim woman in &#8216;burqini&#8217; swimsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/25/paris-pool-bans-muslim-woman-in-burqini-swimsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/25/paris-pool-bans-muslim-woman-in-burqini-swimsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse (AFP)
PARIS — A Paris swimming pool refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a &#8220;burqini,&#8221; a swimsuit covering most of the body, officials said recently, adding to tensions over Muslim dress in France.
The incident came as French lawmakers conduct hearings on whether to ban the burqa after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Nicholas Winton, the &#8216;British Schindler,&#8217; meets the Holocaust survivors he helped save</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/22/sir-nicholas-winton-the-british-schindler-meets-the-holocaust-survivors-he-helped-save/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/22/sir-nicholas-winton-the-british-schindler-meets-the-holocaust-survivors-he-helped-save/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Adams, www.Telegraph.co.uk
Seventy years ago they rode in silence, travelling on trains from Prague, not knowing if they would ever see their parents and siblings again. None of them did.
But by virtue of the foresight, humanity, and sheer bloody-mindedness of a young British stockbroking clerk called Nicholas Winton, 669 Jewish children were saved from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/05/the-real-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/05/the-real-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-10 Levitt Letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Yoram Ettinger, www.YNetNews.com
‘War-torn’ land is in fact an economic, scientific, cultural powerhouse
1. Bankruptcy rate in Israel is one of the lowest in the world (19% increase during the first half of 2009), compared with the US &#8211; 45% increase, Spain &#8211; 58%, Spain &#8211; 75% and Switzerland &#8211; 15% (Yedioth Ahronoth, July 27, 2009).
2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tariq Ramadan, Islamist Academic, Repudiated By Dutch</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/03/tariq-ramadan-islamist-academic-repudiated-by-dutch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/03/tariq-ramadan-islamist-academic-repudiated-by-dutch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below, Stephen Schwartz  updates information that Zola wrote in the February 2005 issue of the Levitt Letter (pp. 28-30). You can read Zola&#8217;s article in the levitt.com archives.
By Stephen Schwartz, www.AmericanThinker.com
In an important development in the fight against extremist Islam in the West, the Dutch city of Rotterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam recently dismissed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Prepares F-15 Jets for Long Range Attack</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/07/15/israel-prepares-f-15-jets-for-long-range-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/07/15/israel-prepares-f-15-jets-for-long-range-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Gil Ronen, www.IsraelNationalNews.com)
The Israeli Air Force’s F-15 fleet is undergoing an upgrade, with systems that make it better equipped for complex long-distance attack scenarios. The systems are being installed in both the F-15 and the F-15I — a model of the F-15 that was developed by its U.S. manufacturer specifically for the IAF.
According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basilica Bones Are St Paul&#8217;s, Pope Declares After Carbon Dating Tests</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/06/30/basilica-bones-are-st-pauls-pope-declares-after-carbon-dating-tests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/06/30/basilica-bones-are-st-pauls-pope-declares-after-carbon-dating-tests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Owen, www.timesonline.co.uk
Pope Benedict XVI has announced that bone fragments found inside the tomb of St Paul in Rome had been carbon dated for the first time, &#8220;confirming the unanimous and uncontested tradition that they are the mortal remains of the Apostle Paul&#8221;. 
He said that archaeologists had inserted a probe into the white marble [...]]]></description>
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